Staff Camera Software Engineer

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Fords Electric Vehicles Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the companys vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed entrepreneurial and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. Youll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively staying focused on only what matters and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position...
As a Staff Camera Software Engineer you will take ownership of a Linux camera/ISP stack centered on the chipset vendors ISP architecture. Your work will span V4L2 media pipeline implementation firmware command/response integration DMA-BUF and GPU-shared memory handling sensor/CSI bring-up and production-grade reliability fixes. This is a hands-on development role requiring deep kernel-space debugging concurrency management and hardware-software co-design. As a staff-level engineer you will also serve as a technical leader setting architectural direction mentoring engineers and driving cross-team alignment on the camera/ISP roadmap.

What youll do...

Develop and maintain Linux kernel camera and ISP drivers utilizing V4L2 the Media Controller framework and videobuf2 (vb2).
Integrate and debug MIPI CSI-2 sensors and image pipelines to ensure optimal routing for preview video and Zero Shutter Lag (ZSL) paths.
Implement and maintain robust firmware interfaces managing command/response queues interrupt processing and work-thread synchronization.
Manage the buffer lifecycle using MMAP DMA-BUF import/export zero-copy mechanisms and fence signaling to minimize latency.
Drive power management initiatives including suspend/resume runtime PM and clock/power sequencing robustness for camera hardware subsystems.
Diagnose and resolve complex kernel-space issues such as race conditions memory leaks deadlocks and frame pipeline regressions.
Build debug and observability tooling using debugfs sysfs ftrace tracepoints custom counters and system health metrics.
Maintain high code quality through rigorous code reviews and technical documentation while collaborating closely with chipset vendors/silicon partners camera sensor manufacturers and user-space camera framework teams.

Youll have...

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

10 years of embedded systems experience with a minimum of 5 years dedicated to Linux kernel driver development.
Expert-level C programming in kernel space including memory management locking primitives (mutexes spinlocks RCU) workqueues and interrupt handling.
Production-level experience with the Linux media stack (V4L2 ioctls Media Controller entities and videobuf2).
Hands-on experience with MIPI CSI-2 sensor and ISP bring-up.
Strong knowledge of DMA-BUF scatter-gather mapping cache coherency and kernel debugging tools (GDB ftrace lockdep).
Solid understanding of Linux power management (runtime PM and suspend/resume).

Even better you may have...
Familiarity with vendor-specific GPU driver stacks TTM memory models and firmware mailbox protocols.
Experience with automotive-grade reliability standards (such as ISO 26262).
A track record of active contributions to the upstream Linux kernel.
Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and long-term architecture strategy for a complex subsystem balancing near-term delivery with future scalability.
A track record of mentoring and elevating engineers fostering strong engineering practices and acting as a trusted technical voice across teams and with external partners.

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:
Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent ramp-up programs subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement fertility treatments and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
This position is a leadership level 6 and ranges from $150200-$283500.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.

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